Below is a 55 second portion of a video link I published earlier. I am trying to spare folks like 5micro, (and maybe [Alli]gatordic[a]x) the tedium of watching anything longer than that. From a previous remark, I conclude that 5Micro doesn’t care for videos, so I purposely publish again only this excerpt. [....] The video excerpt was made, I believe in 2015.
Yes, by all means, please include
me among "doesn’t care for videos":
AlligatorDicax. Debating by shovelling videos without citations into
topics is at best a habit of laziness.
I assume that [Col. Virts] speaks on behalf of the entire space industry. If not, please enlighten me further.
Really? I would
not assume that. I assume only that he speaks only for
himself, with any "
we" being a use of that pronoun that
very informally refers to his past-fellow astronauts, or more broadly, the citizenry of the U.S.A. Established manufacturing companies or their industry-benevolent organizations (e.g., aerospace), federal agencies (e.g., NASA), and military services, can get really upset if people claim to speak for them when such people have not been explicitly
authorized to do so. It can be "career limiting" if its severity isn't deemed a firing offense.
[....] if Virts is not an actor or an impostor, and reflects the cold, bare facts presently, then some further explanation is in order. Since we live in time, consisting of past, present and future, events must line up accordingly. If in 1969, at the launch of the first (successful) Apollo moon landing mission, the technology did not exist for sending a manned space vehicle beyond earth’s orbit, how can we be celebrating in 2019 events which could not have yet possibly taken place, in light of Virts’ unambiguous remarks in 2015?
[<]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgXDi7mc43M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgXDi7mc43M[>]
How could "we" be "
celebrating in 2019"? Simple: Your premise that "the
technology did not exist" in 1969 is
false.
If Virts' remarks are as
unambiguous as you claim, we wouldn't need to worry about subtleties, like tone-of-voice. So why wouldn't you spare
CathInfo readers the cuмulative time-sink of watching yet another video shovelled into a
topic, and instead provide us with
exact quotes--maybe even a full
unedited transcript--
hmmm? It's
you who claimed that it sinks only
55 seconds of each reader's life--or better yet:
only yours!
In [the video cited by hollingsworth,] Virts, in clear, unmistakable language, states that “we” do not have space travel technology capable of launching “us” beyond earth’s lower orbit.
That should be phrased as "
lower-Earth orbit"[
*].
But!
He said "right now we can only fly in earth orbit" - the US today doesn't have the operational technology to go to the moon. He did not say the US never did.
Well,
great leapin' L.E.M.s! That looks for all the world like an exact quote, followed by a valid conclusion!
A moon trip requires a human-rated heavy-lift launch system with enough delta V to get to the moon. The only US operational, human-rated heavy-lift launch system was Saturn V. They were used.
That's "used" as in "launched" or "
flown".
A total of 15 flight-capable vehicles were built, but only 13 were flown.
The unflown 2 vehicles (of the 15) were either honored by being put on display, or ingloriously
scrapped, after Apollos 18--20 were cancelled by some combination of the Johnson (1963--1969) and Nixon (1969--1974) Administrations. Lyndon's Great Society, plus the on-going Vietnam War (as escalated or widened by both) were expensive,
doncha know?
So were all the N1 (the Russian counterpart to the Saturn V).
Welll, yesss, "used" in a manner of speaking: The N1 never became
operational, because all 4
N1 test launches
failed (Feb. 1969--Nov. 1972). Just 2 weeks before Apollo 11, what was reckoned as the 2nd N1 test-launch resulted in a
spectacularly powerful explosion that destroyed its launch facility. Even tho' 'twas a project of the Godless Communist Russians, advocates of space-exploration should be excused if they express some sympathy for all the setbacks, many being political or interpersonal, that were endured by the engineers & scientists in their manned lunar project. Reportedly, N1 was suspended in 1974, after Project Apollo had already concluded, and later, N1 was cancelled in 1976 [×]. It's a mystery to me why the Kremlin would've waited so long to pull the plug on a project that would earn them no better than the
1st runner-up trophy. I don't know how soon Brezhnev (1964--1982) began to advance his newfangled ambition of launching a Soviet
blue-water (i.e., open-ocean) Navy, but that would require spending
lots of rubles from the Soviet budget.
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Note
*: All astronomical or creationist
-centrism debates have prudently been banished by Matthew to the
CathInfo sub(sub)forum <
https://www.cathinfo.com/the-earth-god-made-flat-earth-geocentrism/>.
Note ×: <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_%28rocket%29>. It's written in an authoritative style, but it's distressingly deficient in cited sources, almost as if some N1 enthusiast(s) Godlessly plagiarized a single source, e.g., a book chapter from a book published in the West by 1 of Khruschev's children (i.e., at least 1 son and 1 daughter). Of course, no exposés of the Soviet Space Program, being among R&D programs for the Strategic Rocket Forces, would've leaked out of the Kremlin or Kazakh S.S.R. before
Glasnost and "The Fall of the Soviet Union".